Hi Phil, congratulations- you have almost finished your work.
> My goal is to install 7.1 onto a SCSI drive. Do you have a PFG with the MacWorks II+ PRO option? System 7.1 (or 7.5) will only run with the "PRO" option as far as I know. But you can run System 6.07 or 6.08 first- try to format your hard disk with system 6 first. If you don't like that, you can try System 7.0.1- that should also work with a lower level of the PFG. Second problem: You need more than 1MB of total memory if you wish to install System 7.1 ! 4MB memory minimum are highly recommended! I have 10 MB total memory in my Lisa: 2 MB with a SUNREM 2 MB memory card and 8 MB in my Accelerator 18. I'm currently running System 7.1 Update 3.0 with no problems- even System 7.5 is working fine with the Lisa! Do you have a 2MB Lisa memory card or an Accelerator 18 or 12 with extra memory? You can build your own 2 MB memory expansion- James Mac Phail has described the necessary modification of an original 512KB memory board. You need 72 51256- (150 ns or faster) memory chips and a few extra chips to handle the extra address lines. > I have the SCSI card, with no quickboot chip. (and of course the PFG) > If you have no QuickBoot, you must always start your Mac environment with your MacWorks II+ Floppy or you can install the Mac Works II + on a Profile or a Widget (or a SUN 20 hard disk)- the MacWorks II + installer automatically recognizes any connected parallel hard disk. After loading the MacWorksII+ environment, you can decide from which drive you like to boot- SCSI or parallel. > I also have a SCSI HD (340mb) CONNER drive, that has an unknown > format. Maybe it's Mac formatted, Maybe not. > I don't (at present) have an external case to put the drive in to test. > How did you connect your Conner hard disk to the Lisa SCSI card? Have you properly terminated your Conner hard disk? Perhaps the hard disk has internal terminators- are they present? > The problem now comes when attaching this drive to the Lisa and > booting from MWII+ will cause an error when loading the second > 'system' disk, and prompts for a restart. What kind of error? Do you get a "Sad Mac" ? Which error code appears? > Simply unplugging the drive will not cause this hang and the Lisa > will boot fine. > Sounds like a termination problem..... > My next step is to make sure the drive it is formatted correctly. Can > I do this from within OS9? or does it need to be older? > The hard disk driver from OS 9 is too big (SCSI manager 4.3) for the Mac Plus ROM.... I have had some problems with OS9 formatted hard disks on my original Mac Plus. And only HFS is supported by MacWorksII + Avoid HFS+ (first introduced with Mac OS 8.1) I hope this helps you further, Helmut -- LisaList is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop buy.com and save. <http://lowendmac.com/ad/buy.com.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> LisaList info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/lisa.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/lisalist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
